On Tuesday,in the official meeting for Ukraine's preparations to host the Euro 2012 football championship denied hundreds of millions of dollars of construction contracts to overhaul the country's biggest stadium had been awarded improperly.
"I am not, and will not be, neither directly nor through relatives, a stakeholder in companies that perform contract work for Euro 2012," said Borys Kolesnykov, in a statement to the Ukrainska Pravda news website.
"Not even (in a company) that delivers balls to the stadium," said Kolesnykov, head of the National Agency for Euro 2012.
Ukrainska Pravda,one of the most popular independent news sources has revealed that the statement came by Kolesnykov after an investigative article published by Ukrainska Pravda, identifying three companies allegedly closely linked to Kolesnykov as the recipients some €407 million of contracts to overhaul Kiev's Olympic Stadium.
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